Windsor is kind of an update on The Last Picture Show. A lot of the issues in
that classic about life in a small Texas town are faced here almost fifty years
later. But there is more of a feeling of optimism in Windsor than there was in
The Last Picture Show.
Adam Hicks, Peyton Clark, two refugees from the Disney Channel and Gino Colletti, Nick Krause, Madelyn Deutch, and Quinn Shepherd are six young
people about to graduate. Shepherd's dad is something of a local folk hero,
Joe Stevens decked the representative of a Monsanto like Agribusiness corporation nine years earlier and he's been doing a 10 year stretch in prison, hoping for a parole to see his daughter graduate. Even in the joint
the other cons and even the guards treat him with respect. I've no doubt he's a model prisoner.
The town leader is Barry Corbin who is kind of an unofficial grandfather type figure for the young folk. The people in Hoxton no doubt voted for
Donald Trump in the last election, but a lot of them might be might be doing a bit of buyer's remorse.
No sex or violence, no car chases no real plot even in Windsor to give. Just
some interesting character studies in small town Texas of the coming generation. Nearly all of them want to leave Hoxton, but they all are grateful to have been born and raised there and want to bring Hoxton and
what it gave them to the world.
Nice location cinematography of present day rural Texas characterize Windsor as well. This film did well I'm sure in what is red state America.
